Bill Text: CA AB669 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Administrative regulations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB669 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB669-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 669
| Introduced by Assembly Member Dixon |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 11340 of the Government Code, relating to state government.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 669, as introduced, Dixon.
Administrative regulations.
Existing law, for the purposes of reducing and improving administrative regulations establishes an Office of Administrative Law to review adopted regulations. Existing law states findings and declarations of the Legislature relating to administrative regulations, noting, among other things, that the language of many regulations is frequently unclear and unnecessarily complex.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to these findings and declarations.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11340 of the Government Code is amended to read:11340.
The Legislature finds and declares as follows:(a) There has been an unprecedented growth in the number of administrative regulations in recent years.
(b) The language of many regulations is frequently unclear and unnecessarily complex, unnecessarily complex and unclear, even when the complicated and technical nature of the subject matter is taken into account. The language is often confusing to the persons who must comply with the regulations.
(c) Substantial time and public funds have been spent in adopting regulations, the necessity for which has not been established.
(d) The imposition of prescriptive standards upon private persons and entities through regulations where the establishment of performance standards could reasonably be expected to produce the same result has placed an unnecessary burden on California citizens and discouraged innovation, research, and development of improved means of achieving desirable social goals.
(e) There exists no central office in state government with the power and duty to review regulations to ensure that they are written in a comprehensible manner, are authorized by statute, and are consistent with other law.
(f) Correcting the problems that have been caused by the unprecedented growth of regulations
in California requires the direct involvement of the Legislature as well as that of and the executive branch of state government.
(g) The complexity and lack of clarity in many regulations put small businesses, which do not have the resources to hire experts to assist them, at a distinct disadvantage.
